Best wish & enemy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have no ambitions to be a cabinet minister, or prime minister. I wouldn't wish being prime minister on my worst enemy.”

Wish Enemy Worst Ambition Ministers Prime Prime Minister Cabinets Worst Enemy

Author:Louise Mensch

“Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.”

People Knows World Said States Whole Helping Wish United Enemy United States Weapons Gains Access Nuclear Whole World Als Allies Nuclear Weapons Engineers Pakistan Physicist Al Qaeda

Author:Richard Holbrooke

“One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.”

Knows Wish Enemy Motive

Author:Eugen Kogon

“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony”

Source: Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius

“It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.”

War Reason Desire Wish Enemy Maxims Wish You Approved My Wish

Book:Napoleon's Military Maxims

Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims

“I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation, is not the answer to our problems. Rather, the answer is a revival of our ancient commitment to God, who rules over all the peoples of the world and exalts no one over any other, and to the moral and spiritual values which were once legendary in America. We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”

“What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?”

Men World Life Should Wish Sleep Existence Lord Enemy Doors This World Wall Arms Eating Lays Misery Prize Dread Foe Wretched Breach Fortresses

Book:The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

Source: The Interior Castle, or the Mansions

“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.”

People Ifs Should Desire Certain Suffering Wish Enemy Alive Seeing Slave Prosperity Feds Humankind

Author:Bertrand Russell

“The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would deprive him and whoever else remains alive from the uniqueness, the originality, and the capacity for insight that these enemies being human also have and could share with him. If we wish the death of our enemies, we cannot talk about the community of man. In the losing of the chance for dialogue with our enemies, we are the poorer.”

Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

“For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.”

Trying Littles Young Wish Enemy Lovers Old Friends Old Love

Book:The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'

Source: The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'

“Our enemies are followers of a totalitarian ideology based on Islam, which tells them that Allah wishes to rule the world through them. Israel is a central front in this war. Given the weakness of Western support for the Jews, jihadists see attacking Israel as a strategic tool for eroding the West's ideological defenses and shoring up their supporters throughout the world.”

World War Given Wish Enemy Support Fronts Weakness Tools West Islam Western Jew Israel Defense Ideology Followers Supporter Attacking Strategic Ideological

Author:Caroline Glick

“People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!”

People Giving Wish Enemy Stones Gout

Author:Mary Wortley Montagu

“An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.”

Men Wish Enemy Ill Latter Foe Hurtful

Book:The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...

“A ruler wishing to win shold not trust a cpterued enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enemity, however, concealed, will ruerely come to light.”

Ifs May Light Political Winning Wish Enemy Rooted Rulers Concealed Extending

Author:Chanakya

“The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious, and it can betoo easily countered. The best punches, like the best pieces of invective in this style, are either short-arm jabs, unexpectedly rapid and deadly; or else one-two blows, where you prepare your opponent with the first hit, and then, as his face comes forward, connect with your other fist: one, two. Both are effective; but they can be administered only by a real artist, with a real wish to knock his enemy out.”

Firsts Art Two Real Faces Artist Fighting Left Wish Enemy Pieces Style Arms Blow Obvious Opponents Boxing Fists Rapids Real Artists

Author:Gilbert Highet

“Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!”

Ifs I Can Hate Wish Enemy Betrayal Rome Betray

Author:Pierre Corneille

“If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.”

Ifs Men Firsts Wish Enemy Hero Dragons My Hero Heroines Serpent

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“But is an enemy so execrable that tho in captivity his wishes and comforts are to be disregarded and even crossed? I think not. It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.”

Thinking War Wish Enemy Mankind Comfort Horror Benefits Captivity Disregarded Horror Of War

Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution

“Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.”

Ifs Happiness Wish Enemy

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.”

Facts Wish Water Enemy Genius Morality Ethics Oil Bitter Companion Affectionate Oil And Water

Author:Artemas Ward

“The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa.”

Way Use Fighting Force Wish Effort Enemy Military Battle Vices Preparation Tunes Swings Commanders Vice Versa

Author:Bernard Law Montgomery

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